K1 and evidence of meeting???

[MichaelANDVelvet 2]

I am getting ready to fill out my K1 forms, I-129F and such.

Can I use my fiancee's airplane boarding passes and e-mails as examples of us meeting or should she keep them for her interview and such?

She has seen me more than I have gone to see her.

Thanks for the help.

[Scott & LC 3]

Hey there,

In my opinion, send in as many evidence as possible that you both met before within 2 years. It could be anything... airplane boarding passes are the best (make sure you're only sending in copies), photos being together, hotel receipts.... anything. The more relevant evidences, the better!!

Good luck!!

[SunDrop 59]

Very little is technically needed. Some people, particularly those from 'high fraud' and/or 'high denial rate' countries, like to frontload their petitions. The theory is that whatever you send with your petition is forwarded to the Embassy. Some really don't like waiting until your interview to get their 'evidence of relationship' beyond just satisfying the USCIS that you have met in the past 2 years. It's worth checking on the Canada regional forum what others experienced.

We sent copies of our e-tickets, passport pages with entry stamps (which I don't think Canadians get?) boarding passes and luggage tags scanned onto 2 sheets of A4 for each trip. 6 photos labelled with names, places and dates, printed onto A4 paper, and a print out of 2009's yahoo message archive screen, to show ongoing communication. This last one was probably overkill for London, but what the heck.

As long as you satisfy the requirement of proof of meeting within the past 2 years, you'll have satisfied the initial petition requirements. But again, double check if the Canadian US embassy will take/ require more evidence at interview.

[lilacvioletiris 11]

Which service center are you going through? California or Vermont?

My service center was California. I included 4 photos with captions stating date and where the photo was taken (one from our first meeting, one from the night we were engaged, and then another from the next weekend when he gave me my engagement watch and a closeup of him holding my hand with the watch predominately pictured). I included a cover letter explaining the photos in more detail. I printed the pictures in color on cardstock from my home computer.

I also included in the mutual intent to marry section a photocopy of an engagement announcement. In the cover letter of this engagement announcement I provided a web address where the adjudicator could view the announcement online as well.

With this information, my petition for my fiance' was approved in 85 days through California Service Center. I didn't include boarding passes or receipts. I didn't find this site until about a month after I filed and was worried I would get a Request for Evidence. But I got approved without any more evidence than what I supplied.

Good luck!

[BriCar 0]

I am getting ready to fill out my K1 forms, I-129F and such.

Can I use my fiancee's airplane boarding passes and e-mails as examples of us meeting or should she keep them for her interview and such?

She has seen me more than I have gone to see her.

Thanks for the help.

It's a good idea to send some evidence of your meeting, especially something with dates, times, and places.. pictures are worth a thousand words. And collect some more for the interview. In the case of evidence more is always better than less.

Keep track of all the visits back and forth, they can confirm it with border crossing data from passports and/or license plates.

They are just trying to be sure your upcoming marriage is not a business deal but the real deal!

I plan on attending the interview with my girl, then pack the truck and head south the very next day!!

WHOOOHOOO

Edited February 20, 2010 by BriCar

[Danu 19]

I am getting ready to fill out my K1 forms, I-129F and such.

Can I use my fiancee's airplane boarding passes and e-mails as examples of us meeting or should she keep them for her interview and such?

She has seen me more than I have gone to see her.

Thanks for the help.

Use the boarded passes, but keep the emails for the interview. Most times they dont even ask to see anything at our interviews but her having them then will be better. At this stage you are proving you have met, doesnt matter who went were. Boarding passes, credit card statements showing purchases made while you were visiting each other, hotel reciepts etc are the stuff they will want to see right now. I threw in a couple photos as well to show I was down there when I said I was (example, pictures from Disney, credit card statement showing purchase at Disney on X date, copy of my Disney ticket with my name on it). We had no issues and no RFE's when we did our K1.